The year round Project IT Internship position will assist the Project Management team members with all aspects of the project lifecycle. Such activities will include drafting and obtaining approval for scope change documents, design documents, change control forms and project closing documents. This position will also develop meeting agendas, distribute project communications to stakeholders and update risk registers. The Project IT Intern will continue to develop skills in the areas of Project, Resource, Task and Communication management. The Project IT Intern is responsible for developing an understanding of Project Management methodologies as well as other supporting tools for project planning purposes. Duties may span from simple project task management to ultimately management of small projects in the IT Project Portfolio.Click here to read more »

The folks at the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems (Grits) Lab at Georgia Tech have been hard at work for some time now researching swarm robots. A portion of said work deals with tasks that require a group of hi-tech gadgets to individually reach a location and a specific time — much like the mobile landing platform that we saw last year.Click here to read more »

IBM Research, in collaboration with DARPA’s Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program, has reached another brain simulation milestone. Powered by its new TrueNorth system on the world’s second fastest supercomputer, IBM was capable of crafting a 2.084 billion neurosynaptic cores and 100 trillion synapses — all at a speed “only” 1,542 times slower than real life.Click here to read more »

The Queen always keeps up with the latest technology, and today she’ll try to squeeze a Galaxy Note 10.1 into her handbag. The tablet represents a “digital time-capsule,” and will be loaded with multimedia clippings — submitted by people from all over the world — detailing history during her reign. A total of 60 video, audio and text entries were selected from 80,000 (150GB-worth), but all of that data will eventually be added to an online archive called the “Diamond (re)Collection.” The project was orchestrated by The Royal Commonwealth Society, which briefly considered using an iPad, but ultimately decided Samsung’s slate was the more regal (even if it is less cool). It leaves us wondering — will the next Royal Decree be signed with an S-Pen?

Development of the XBMC project has continued to roll along since Eden launched officially earlier this year, and now the first beta for v12 Frodo is live. Those who dive in will experience a slew of new features that have been trickling out in monthly builds recently, including support for HD audio formats like DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD, live TV and PVR access plus versions for Android and Raspberry Pi. There’s a long list of features to check out — and known issues, this is a beta after all — check out the official blog for all the details and to try it out yourself.

What happens when a prestigious symphonic orchestra and an innovating technologymeet? A musical revolution takes place: the Brussels Philharmonic is the first orchestra in the world to replace its paper sheet music by Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 tablets.

NASA (and the ESA) have long been working on a multi-planet internet that can link up spaceships, probes and rovers, but they’ve at last brought the experimentation from the broad scale to smaller dimensions. Lego bricks, to be exact.

The latest officially supported operating system on the Raspberry Pi is the original RISC OS. A far cry from Linux variants the naked board is used to, RISC OS was developed in the late eighties by the same hotshots who designed the first ARM processor. Fittingly, it’s also related to the OS found on the BBC Micro, a computer that shared the Raspberry Pi’s educational vision. Don’t expect much from the simple OS, but it will run extremely fast given the Pi’s hardware is practically futuristic compared with the computers it was intended for. The simplicity does mean, however, that it’s much easier to get right into the system and start tinkering. It was formerly a closed-source OS, so luckily, there are a bunch of Programmers’ Reference Manuals (PRMs) available to kick-start your next project. Click the image for details.

Hot on the heels of the delivery of the 20-plus petaflops “Titan” CPU-GPU hybrid supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory last week, Cray has launched what is unquestionably a much better machine, the long-awaited “Cascade” system developed in conjunction with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and sporting the new “Aries” interconnect.Click here to read more »

A new super-Earth planet that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life has been discovered around a nearby star by an international team of astronomers, led by Mikko Tuomi, University of Hertfordshire, and Guillem Anglada-Escude, University of Goettingen.Click here to read more »